Gov. Chris Christie has appointed three members to a committee that recommends drinking water standards and which has not met since 2010.
Environmental Protection Department spokesman Larry Ragonese says the board's agenda is being finalized and the group will convene in April.
Some environmentalists say they believe seats were left vacant to silence the panel as it looked into regulating additional chemicals.
Ragonese says that is not the case. He says the group did not meet because the department was busy with other priorities.
He says the new members being added are Laura Cummings of Nutley, Keith Raymond Cooper of South Brunswick and George Van Orden of Madison. The Star-Ledger of Newark was the first to report the legislatively required board was reforming.
